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Please feel free to vote for "none of the above" if you see fit, thanks
for catching that.
David
Brian Smith wrote:
> I am not a committer. But, I am curious about why you don't have a "No
> Logo" option or a "Wait for more submissions" option.
>
> Firstly, I think that they name "Derby" is a reference to racing, which
> implies that the product is fast. This is a good association. However,
> most entries seem to be based on that fact that "derby" *could* also
> refer to a type of hat that most people have absolutely no knowledge of.
> I don't see how this allusion to obscure trivia is useful to the
> project. Besides that, there are already major, successful open-source
> projects using hat logos (Red Hat and Fedora). Therefore, I believe that
> the hat logos are all fundamentally unhelpful, regardless of their
> impressive artistic merits.
>
> Secondly, it seems like this logo idea was just conceived a very short
> time ago. The next version of Derby won't be released for some time. I
> don't understand why these kinds of marketing decisions cannot be
> deferred to a time closer to the release date. Since there is no
> pressing need for a logo, I think that it makes sense to wait for a
> really spectacular submission, even if it doesn't happen immediately.
>
> Thirdly, I think that you would get a much broader (and potentially
> better) set of submissions if this was announced in forums that are
> oriented towards graphic design. Just like I wouldn't ask the population
> of a woodworking convention to design lingerie, I don't think it is a
> good idea to ask a mailing list consisting almost exclusively of
> programmers to create artwork.
>
> Finally, I don't understand why every project needs to have a logo in
> the first place. Out of the following databases, how many of them have a
> logo that made enough of an impression on you that you could sketch it:
> SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HSQL? Furthermore,
> none of the API's that I use on a regular basis have any logo worth noting.
>
> - Brian
>
> On 12/2/05, *David W. Van Couvering* <David.Vancouvering@sun.com
> <mailto:David.Vancouvering@sun.com>> wrote:
>
> This is a vote for choosing a logo for Apache Derby.
>
> Rules of engagement:
>
> - Please vote for one and only one logo.
>
> - Respond to both derby-dev and derby-all and put an X to the logo of
> your choice
>
> - Please vote only once. Multiple votes by the same person will be
> discarded.
>
> - The vote will follow DB project guidelines at
> http://db.apache.org/decisions.html
> <http://db.apache.org/decisions.html>. Anyone can cast a vote, but only
> committers have binding votes.
>
> - Only entries submitted to the JIRA item DERBY-297 will be considered.
>
> - The list of logos is officially frozen to those on this
> ballot. Logos
> added later will not be considered in the vote.
>
> - If no logo has more than 50% of the votes, there will be a runoff vote
> of the top three vote getters.
>
> - Voting closes at 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) on
> Wednesday, December 7
>
> =========================
>
> Logo candidates (place an X by your choice).
>
> 1. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12320870/DerbyLogo_Hat_option1.jpg
>
> 2. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321016/DerbyLogo_Hat_option2.jpg
> <http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321016/DerbyLogo_Hat_option2.jpg>
>
> 3. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321017/DerbyLogo_Hat_option3.jpg
>
> 4. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12320873/DerbyLogo_text.jpg
>
> 5. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310607/andrew-derbyhat1.jpg
> <http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310607/andrew-derbyhat1.jpg>
>
> 6. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310608/andrew-derbyhat2.jpg
>
> 7. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310614/andrew-derbyknight1.jpg
>
> 8. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310615/andrew-derbyknight2.jpg
> <http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12310615/andrew-derbyknight2.jpg>
>
> 9. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/20155/derby4.jpg
>
> 10. [ ] (these all belong together...)
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321022/derby_logo_only.jpg
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321023/derby_with_text.jpg
> <http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321023/derby_with_text.jpg>
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12321055/roger_full_showcase.jpg
>
> 11. [ ]
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12320752/derbyhatlogo-lettersaligned.png
>
>
>
>